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Pearl Zhu is a digital leader whose career spans over two decades in technology, business, e-commerce, and global industry. She writes books like Digital Agility, Digital Master, and CIO Master, while running the popular 'Future of CIO' blog with millions of views. She brings cross-industrial, cross-cultural experience, applying insight, clarity, and strategic vision to help organizations navigate transformation. Her thought leadership blends foresight and practicality, helping leaders build agility, innovation, and cultural evolution. Her impact lies in elevating digital maturity and giving voice to what it means to lead in change.
"Change Management = The human side of change."
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"Change Management = The human side of change."

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"A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation."
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"A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation."

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"Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom."
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"Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom."

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"The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level."
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"The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level."

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"Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back."
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"Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back."

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"Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature."
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"Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature."

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"Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture."
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"Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture."

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"Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities."
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"Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities."

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"Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world."
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"Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world."

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"T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer."
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"T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer."

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"The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality."
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"The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality."

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"Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy."
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"Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy."

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"Inspiration is not just a short-term momentum. It could take time and generations of change to truly build a culture of creativity."
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"Inspiration is not just a short-term momentum. It could take time and generations of change to truly build a culture of creativity."

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"A CIO as "Chief Intrapreneur Officer has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits."
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"A CIO as "Chief Intrapreneur Officer has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits."

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"The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of "old experience and "new way to do things, the "learning and doing."
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"The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of "old experience and "new way to do things, the "learning and doing."

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"Context is a chain of associations which stimulate creativity."
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"Context is a chain of associations which stimulate creativity."

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"Creative expansion cannot happen without vision."
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"Creative expansion cannot happen without vision."

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"Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen."
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"Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen."

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"The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom."
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"The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom."

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"Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations."
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"Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations."

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"The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism."
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"The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism."

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"Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value."
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"Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value."

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"Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble."
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"Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble."

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"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."
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"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."

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"Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence."
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"Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence."

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"Out of Box is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective."
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"Out of Box is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective."

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"To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential."
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"To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential."

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"You cannot "disrupt without incremental innovation being part of the process."
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"You cannot "disrupt without incremental innovation being part of the process."

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"Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment."
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"Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment."

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"The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve."
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"The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve."

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"IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage."
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"IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage."

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"Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem."
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"Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem."

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"Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding."
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"Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding."

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"The problem of "Command-Control is that you can control people's behavior, but not their mind."
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"The problem of "Command-Control is that you can control people's behavior, but not their mind."

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"Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success."
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"Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success."

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"The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation."
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"The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation."

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"Culture is what happens when the managers are not around."
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"Culture is what happens when the managers are not around."

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"Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias."
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"Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias."

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"A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still."
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"A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still."

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"A benchmarking mind is an "interpreter mind which can bridge the gaps."
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"A benchmarking mind is an "interpreter mind which can bridge the gaps."

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"Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness."
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"Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness."

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"You don't need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes."
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"You don't need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes."

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"Be courageous to listen to what you don't want to hear and have the guts to be innovative."
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"Be courageous to listen to what you don't want to hear and have the guts to be innovative."

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"Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability."
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"Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability."

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"Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance."
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"Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance."

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"A programmable mind embraces mental agility, to practice "de-learning and "relearning all the time."
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"A programmable mind embraces mental agility, to practice "de-learning and "relearning all the time."

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"While the individual contributions provide the "building block of creativity, it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting."
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"While the individual contributions provide the "building block of creativity, it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting."

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"Learning to think beyond a single dimension, look beyond the surface, love more than one color and enjoy the world of differences."
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"Learning to think beyond a single dimension, look beyond the surface, love more than one color and enjoy the world of differences."

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"Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems."
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"Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems."

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"Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking."
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"Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking."

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